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[SirPeebles]

http://doge2048.com/

wow. such game.  very blocks.

[shraeye]

Like.

[Witherweaver]

Anyhow, today's announcement was pretty much the best evidence to date that universes beyond our own exist.

I missed this.  Not all inflation models propose multiple universes, right?

[SirPeebles]

Anyhow, today's announcement was pretty much the best evidence to date that universes beyond our own exist.

I missed this.  Not all inflation models propose multiple universes, right?

Correct.  Not all do.  "Best evidence to date" is not meant to imply that this is even remotely conclusive.

[WalrusMcFishSr]

Can someone explain a bit more about this B-mode polarization stuff? Is that similar to like, circular polarization? Why would inflation induce a curl on the CMB's polarization? Or is that just because of rotating massive objects like Kerr black holes, causing "refraction" in the gravitational waves due to off-diagonal elements in the stress-energy tensor blah blah I don't really know what I'm talking about?

[SirPeebles]

Can someone explain a bit more about this B-mode polarization stuff? Is that similar to like, circular polarization? Why would inflation induce a curl on the CMB's polarization? Or is that just because of rotating massive objects like Kerr black holes, causing "refraction" in the gravitational waves due to off-diagonal elements in the stress-energy tensor blah blah I don't really know what I'm talking about?

http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/03/16/gravitational-waves-in-the-cosmic-microwave-background/

That is the best in-depth but not totally technical explanation I've seen so far.  It has pictures that show E-modes and B-modes.

Inflation posits a (quantum) scalar field called an inflaton field.  Additionally, there is the well known gravitational field which is a tensor field.  The inflaton field is thought to have caused rapid expansion, but to have decayed during the first several thousand Planck times (way less than one second).  My understanding is that the inflaton and gravitational fields would both polarize light.  Both produce E-modes, but only the gravitational fields would produce B-modes.  By doing a statistical analysis of the polarization of light in the cosmic background radiation you can piece together what the relative strengths.  That ratio is the number r which is being reported.

[sudgy]

http://doge2048.com/

wow. such game.  very blocks.

I lost because I couldn't tell which of two was my biggest block...

[WalrusMcFishSr]

Oh man, Richard Easther, I took an electrodynamics class with that guy. He had an awesome New Zealand accent...the concept of 'charge' comes up rather frequently in such a class, and he would always pronounce it like "chaahhhhge"

[AHoppy]

http://doge2048.com/

wow. such game.  very blocks.

I lost because I couldn't tell which of two was my biggest block...

First Try

[ashersky]

Is "doges" "dogs" in another languages?

[Ozle]

Is "doges" "dogs" in another languages?

I assumed it was a meme thing based on the pictures

[Teproc]

Is "doges" "dogs" in another languages?

The meme involves misspelled words.

Doge was the title given to leaders in medieval Venice, if that helps.

[ashersky]

Is "doges" "dogs" in another languages?

The meme involves misspelled words.

Doge was the title given to leaders in medieval Venice, if that helps.

I knew about the normal use of Doge.  I didn't think it had anything to do with dogs, but I wanted to be sure.

[WalrusMcFishSr]

The Doge of Venice:

[StrongRhino]

I got 3368 on my first try, dunno if that's any good. Have no idea what I'm doing. I'm addicted already...

[mail-mi]

[Titandrake]

I have been wasting so much time playing Osu. I think I've finally found a rhythm game that has a reasonable enough difficulty curve to get me hooked. (As in you construct your own difficulty curve, and the ratings tend to be pretty accurate.)

[ashersky]

I lost it at Scuttle.

[Witherweaver]

Relevance:

[Kuildeous]

Is "doges" "dogs" in another languages?

Mickey: Good dags. D'ya like dags?
Tommy: Dags?
Mickey: What?
Mrs. O'Neil: Yeah, dags.
Tommy: Oh, dogs. Sure, I like dags.

[Lekkit]

I have been wasting so much time playing Osu. I think I've finally found a rhythm game that has a reasonable enough difficulty curve to get me hooked. (As in you construct your own difficulty curve, and the ratings tend to be pretty accurate.)

Oh, the hours I've played the DS games... They are many indeed. I recently visited my parents and my sister. She had Ouendan 2 lying around. It took me a couple of tries to cap the score on the final song, but I managed to do it.

I have played Osu some, but recently my PC haven't been up to it. And the mobile version doesn't really do it for me.

[Tables]

I'm kind of surprised to see how widespread that 2048 game has become. Here's a version someone recently posted on Facebook:

http://games.usvsth3m.com/2048-doctor-who-edition/

[Polk5440]

I think DOGE is "doggie". Dog + "E", get it? 

[florrat]

Here's a video by minutephysics about the polarizaton discovery. It doesn't go into the details, but it is explained very clearly.

[eHalcyon]

I think DOGE is "doggie". Dog + "E", get it? 

It's debatable.  It seems that most people pronounce it "dohj".  That's how I pronounce it as well.